Re:UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate...
by slaymaker1907 on Friday March 24, 2023 @04:18PM
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What kind of candy bars are those? That's like 10 candy bars. A US Hershey bar is only 220 calories which is pretty standard for a candy bar. The real MVP for calories at minimum price is peanut butter. A bottle of Walmart peanut butter apparently goes for $2.18 currently and is 2880 calories total.
Re:UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate...
by jmercouris on Friday March 24, 2023 @04:53PM
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I've been thinking about this for many years. I really think flour is the best ratio of calories to dollar. However, I've been unable to satisfactorily quantify the energy and time costs into equivalents.
In Germany I'm able to buy 1kg of flour for about 50 euro cents at Edeka. I don't know how much bread that makes, but it is A LOT. I'm certain that it is significantly more than 2880 calories.
Re:UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate...
by acjacobson on Saturday March 25, 2023 @07:04AM
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Flour is clearly the winner vs. peanut butter when comparing price per calories. At Walmart.com it is $2.12 for a 5lb (2.26kg) bag which is about 8250 calories. But yeah, processing that into bread (home energy cost and time cost) is tough to calculate and probably depends on your situation.
Still there are in-between options - pasta for instance is more bang for your buck than peanut butter and is much easier to prep yourself than bread.
Re:UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate...
by clnq on Monday March 27, 2023 @01:04PM
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It's interesting this conversation evolved into one about the most cost-effective sources of calories. Unintentionally, it serves as a poignant reflection of how things are going in our times. Many people will need to consider cost of calories seriously soon, many already do so.
Re:UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate...
by clnq on Friday March 24, 2023 @07:11PM
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These are Racer from Aldi, with a pack of six being £0.79 and about 1000 kcal.
Anyways, it was to argue a point. Most calorie-dense foods are unhealthy if eaten alone. Peanut-butter, and flour included.
And the inflation will push some people toward such food choices. Maybe not that extreme, but switching to cheaper food generally means eating less nutritious food (unless you were over-spending), which is awful.
Being pushed into single-digits spending on food daily isn't outside the realm of reality. £10 a day is about £305 a month. This is a lot of money for some vulnerable groups, like large single parent families, retirees, students, some young adults, and similar.
The inflation is also making it so that you can both: buy less food or less nutritious food for the same amount of money, and you have less money for food as other expenses have inflated. Finally, less healthy food demand has long-term consequences to do with its supply going down and prices going up further.